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this morning i continued my barricade. every half hour i've finished with what's available, and i check the keys.

i had collected quite a pile of keys from the bodies in the walmart and hoped that the remotes still worked. i put aside the H2's keys. i was pretty sure they were the right ones; the body had a california driver's license, and through the binoc's, i can see that the car sports a cali license plate. my lucky day.

i didn't want to test those keys though; they're out of range anyways. i sorted out the keys with remotes on them... 12. i sat on the roof for a while looking at each key and going around the whole roof, looking for a honda... looking for a vw. finally i found a match with a toyota around the back, and it worked.

but this produced a much greater response than i had hoped for. all of those things down there within fifty feet of the car had heard it, and slowly came over to it. i had forgotten how they can give so much attention to something new. i remember a bird dropped dead from the sky a few months back; last living thing i'd seen in a while. they stumbled over to it and tore it apart within seconds. with so little to do, they picked at it for hours, maybe looking for more remains. they scoured the ground too, looking for anything.

this could work. i had to think about this carefully. when you win the lottery, you sit down, take a break, open a beer, and think. what do i do with this sheer luck.